Thanks for the encouragement. There will be a bonus of sorts... quite a few drabbles later. :D
Expose
Nothing grows in Hueco Mundo.
If it does, it is unnatural.
All that is born is… emptiness. Artificial or not, one cannot say.
But he misses dew, grass… and fruit that one child found for another orphan starving to death.
Her smile had been beautiful, for it was freely bestowed.
But the time came to grow up.
How reluctant and rare that occurrence became, like a riverbed drying up in a drought.
And he knows why, and he despises himself.
So when Aizen Sousuke smiled… the kind that identifies a fellow creature to another, Gin accepted.
His drought is over.